ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 11CF3436
Date: April 10, 2015
SANTA ANA – A man who was on the Santa Ana Police Department’s (SAPD) most wanted list was sentenced today to 55 years to life in state prison for murdering his employer. Gerald Guy Byrne, 54, was found guilty by a jury on March 11, 2015, of one felony count of second degree murder. The Court also found the defendant’s two prior strike convictions for robbery in 1986 and arson in 1993 to be true.
At the time of the crime, Byrne was working for 69-year-old Charles Samo. Continue reading